Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-05-04
NEWS IN BRIEF.

I'm Gerard, Kansas, the druggist.
have refused to sell liquor.
Fresh water is sold in Hurley,
Wisconsin, at % cents barrel.
The Penobscot ice crop is estima-
ted az 192, 900 tons this season.
People in Barber County, Kansas,
will cultivate Russian sunfowers for
fuel.
Chicago has IL of the 81 oleomar.
garine factories found by the revenue
officers.
Seattle, Wyoming Territory, has
already six volunteer fire companies
organized.
The prevalence of glanders out
that way has lately been exciting Mon
tana horse owners.
Henry Botel, a "phenOmenaln
tenor, contemplates spending next sea.
son IN America.
Mime. Sembrich has been appointed
Prussian Court vocalist by the EN-
peror of Germany.
"A bull fight, a Texas authority
states, is now taken to include q tussle
Win tough STEAK.
About one hundred BOYS are in the
plumbing class Of the New York Trade
School engaged IN studying the art.
in an area of Jog, ,1O3 square miles
in the northwest province of India
there are said to be A, 900, 600 Hindoos
"A pipe of beaten gold has beer
found in an orange grove at Apcpka
florida, by the owner or the property.
"A Mexican has been selling to the
unwary at San Jose lCaL), nuggets OF
tinfoll, representing them to be OF
silver.
-"EyesOlOgy" is now ehrOnicled as
fashions latest lad, and it means tbs
telling of character from the color of
the eyes.
Exclusive of BostOnese, there are
spoken in Boston, local authority
tells US, sOms thirty different Ian.
guages.
Out of $50 women REGISTERED a.
entitled to vote in Burlington, Yer.
mont, only one availed herself of the
privilege.
The use of coal grows more and
more common ''dOWn East" even
among farmers who have ample sup
plies OF wood.
Vito CeTcelOne, who died recently
at Milan, has left by will his entire
fortune, amounting to SiGO,000, to
King Humbert.
Wild honey, to the amount of
over 300 pounds, was found by two
men in ahOllOw tree, near Utica, Penn.
! sylvanla, recently.
Walt Whitman is said to have re-
ceived letter from Lord Tennysou
lately, in which the laureate adtresse.
him as "Dear old man."
"A new license schedule adopted
for Lawrence, Massachusetts, sets
$3.50 as the figure mnkeepers are to
pay, and 81 for druggists.
1t is believed that thousands Will
be added this year TO Alaska's pOpula-
tion, as mining and exploring are to
be energetically prosecuted.
"A steam tug of 100 tons burthen
is under construction at Bangor, Me.
1t is claimed that she VIII be the
largest boat of her kind in this country.
"A syndicate of Amsterdam
bankers has purchased 900 square miles
of timber land in western Florida on
which to found colony Of Hollanders.
N. o. She,nutt, who was hanged
until he was almost lifeless, recently,
in Jackson county, Georgia, says he
suffered very little pain by the opera
tion.
The Spanish iron ore trade is re.
ported to be depressed by the serious
delays to which steamers are subjected
at the port of Bilbao. The ore is
much used in England.
An odd bu--Iary occurred atH
chester, New York, recently, where
thieves stole the forms of paper which
were ready for the press. Newspaper
rivalry is the supposed cause.
DR.. Riegler, of Pesth, Hungary,
IS said to have succeeded in photo
a prO;ectile fired from a gun
Turing its passage through the air at
he rate of 440 metres per second.
The Canadian fishermen are trying
% buy enough clam bait in Maine to
upply them the entire fishing season,
10 that retaliation, If decided on, will
lot harm them in this particular.
Quarantine against cholera in
hill, established on the Isthmus of
Panama and in Peru, makes it neces-
ary to despatch the United States
nails to Chilli via Rio de Janeiro.
The committee of the British socI-
ties Of Boston which has in charge the
proposed observance of Queen Vic
oria's jubilee has selected a5 the pro-
.ramme Of the day picnic, banquet
nd bail.
The Mechanics Institute of San
francisco received last year $50, $50.
# which S3l 900 represent the profits
f the industrial exhibition. The H.
tltute holds property to the value of
596, ,5S2.
Two prisoners at Tippesanoe, O.,
ave been discharged from custody on
point made by their counsel that
he crime with which the commitment
apers charged them, "burglarizing,
las one unknown to the law of the
tate
1t sounds funny, DuJ Jne name or
he new Consul to Mexico, a Missouri
entleman, IS Elizabeth Caroline
IOore. He was name1 for his two
His grandfathers seem
, have been neglected.
"A Montana man. who recently
rrived in Chicago and sold five car
,ads of cattle, brought up a httle
Iter in a police court, after doing
ne town." with balance of 70 cents
.om the thousands of dollars he got
)r his cattle.
in a trial before a justice of the
eace at Lead City, d. T., and during
le temporary absence of the Court,
le plaintiff whipped the defendant
hIle the attorneys kept the crowd
ack. The Court then returned and
ne trial proceeded.
Free ferries are being established
cross the Thames, at Woolwich,
London). The first is expected to go
Ito operation IN the spring, with two
Gamers large enough for the convey
nee at one time of several vehicles and